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Unsettled Remains

Canadian Literature and the Postcolonial Gothic

Herausgeber: Sugars, Cynthia; Turcotte

Beschreibung

Examines how Canadian writers have combined a postcolonial awareness with gothic metaphors of monstrosity and haunting in their response to Canadian history. This book gathers the essays that range from treatments of early postcolonial gothic expression in Canadian literature to attempts to define a Canadian postcolonial gothic mode.

Autor

Cynthia Sugars is a professor of English at the University of Ottawa, where she teaches Canadian literature. She is the author of Canadian Gothic: Literature, History, and the Spectre of Self-Invention(2014) and is the editor of numerous essay collections, including The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature (forthcoming 2015); Canadian Literature and Cultural Memory (with Eleanor Ty, 2014); Unsettled Remains: Canadian Literature and the postcolonial Gothic (with Gerry Turcotte; WLU Press, 2009); and the historical anthology Canadian Literature in English: Texts and Contexts (with Laura Moss, 2009). With Herb Wyile, she is currently the co-editor of Studies in Canadian Literature. Gerry Turcotte is the executive dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Sydney. He is the past president of the Association for Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand (ACSANZ), past secretary of the International Council for Canadian Studies (ICCS), and founding director of the Centre for Canadian-Australian Studies (CCAS). He is the author of numerous books.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 154mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 470g
• ISBN-13: 9781554580545
• ISBN-10: 1554580544
• Artikelnr.: 26158085